… so Elise established the Academie des Beaux-Arts focused on marble sculpture. She financed sculptors and used the money to “reform” the clergy.
Elise closed convents if they weren’t hospitals or schools, and set up the “Code de Napoleon”; strict penal codes with tax penalties.
These funds she used to set up charities like money for free health care, development of agricultural machines, schools for girls of poor or noble birth, and secondary schools for boys.
(Portrait: Elise with her daughter and a marble sculpture of Napoleon in 1808)